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The enforcement of the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA), which in Ireland supplements the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation. The Act came into effect May 25, 2018 and outlines specific rules that Irish HR specialists must be consider.

The EU Law Enforcement Directive became Irish law and specifies the Data Protection Commission as the national supervisory authority for data protection.

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The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), expected to pass in the European Parliament within the week and take effect in 2017, will enforce opt-in requirements for data collection and a “right to be forgotten” that gives consumers total transparency and control over how their personal data is used.

In order to create a unified data protection code across the European Union, the Data Protection Reform agreed upon yesterday will take the form of an EU Regulation, called in this case the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). In contrast to the soon-to-be superseded Directive 95/46/EC, the GDPR will be directly applicable across all EU member states, each of which must apply the same rules. Let’s take a look at what this all means for businesses operating in the EU.